Jean Cocteau Quotes - Page 8

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• All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

  Jean Cocteau

  Spiritual, Journey, Martyr

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• The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Symbolism, Able

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

  Jean Cocteau

  Freedom, Math, Doors

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• In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Men, Cogs

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Respect movements, flee schools.

  Jean Cocteau

  School, Movement

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

  Jean Cocteau

  Believe, Angel, Moments

  Vogue Magazine, May 1984.

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• A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reality, Window, Abstract

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• See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

  Jean Cocteau

  Disappointment, Deflation, Fortune

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• The cinema is death at work.

  Jean Cocteau

  Cinema

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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• Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

  Jean Cocteau

  Army, Night, Ears

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

  Jean Cocteau

  Song, Military, Skins

  "A Thing or Two about Music". Book by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1948.

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• You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.

  Jean Cocteau

  Crowds, Moments

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• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Laughter, Silence, Black

  "Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet. The Testament of Orpheus".

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• Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Moving, Looks

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

  Jean Cocteau

  Ridiculous, Relation, Do Not Fear

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

  Jean Cocteau

  History, Legends

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• I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Numbers, Intoxicated

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.37, Melville House

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• Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photography, Silence, Cry

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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Color, Tiny, Use

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspiration, Play, Profound

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• It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Invisibility, Elegance, Provision

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